There are a LOT of professional people (myself included) who don't regularly carry a cell phone. I have been known to leave my cell phone in a lot of weird places. I have a lot of problems with the reliability of cell phones & not being able to send a message via a dial up modem isn't alluring to me. (there are a lot of reasons computer people need to do this) I also have the option of ignoring the pager versus a cell phone. Doctors for one really do not like cell phones. It is one thing for a patient to have your cell phone number versus your pager number. --Don
On 2/9/09 12:43 AM, "Jacob Suter" <jsu...@intrastar.net> wrote: Seriously... What is today's market for pagers? I can't imagine there's any real reason for them to continue to exist. If the FCC can force you to quit using your perfectly good 25 khz rig, force the multi-billion-dollar-a-year OTA TV industry onto HD, or the zillion other examples of the FCC's absolute power, why hasn't someone asked the FCC why the paging industry is continuing to camp on a pile of spectrum with insane EIRPs that regularly cause co-site and near-site crosstalk problems. Playing with my rather deaf scanner, in a rather low-population area, I hear almost no pager traffic - enough that it could easily all be placed onto a single channel or thrown onto a cellular network. Unluckily, there is just enough traffic on practically everywhere from 145 to 960 mhz that it causes problems on any high mounted site. Come on, who's for a "Paging Sunset"? JS -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jed Barton Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 4:26 PM To: repeater-builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] A desense issue Hey guys, Alright, perhaps some of you have some ideas, cause this one has driven a bunch of us absolutely crazy. At one of my repeater sights, I have a 220 repeater, a 440, and a 900. Also, there is a paging transmitter about 3 feet away from all of this. Here's the issue. The paging transmitter is desensing both the 440 and the 900. The 440 repeater is a kenwood tkr850, and the 900 is an msf5000. I'm running a set of 4 cavity wacom cans on UHF, same for 900. The paging transmitter is transmitting on 152.6. We've watched it, and there is no doubt that the paging transmitter is the problem. The transmitter is a Glen Air. We can shoot a weak signal in to the UHF repeateror the 900 with the service monitor. That weak signal will get very strong as soon as the paging transmitter unkeys. We even went to the extreme of getting a filter from par electronics to knotch out the 152.6, but na, didn't work. As if this isn't bad enough, the antennas for the 900 and the 440 are only about 25 feet apart horizontally, it's as far apart as they can go. Any thoughts guys, anyone ever run in to this situation? Thanks, Jed ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
